The urgent effort to turn vacation rental units into housing for Maui’s fire evacuees is leading to some confusion and profiteering. That’s because a lot of money is being offered to entice short-term rental operators to give long term leases to the more than 3,000 displaced families.
The Department of Education plans to cancel nearly a half a billion dollars in construction projects across the state because it wasn’t able to get them before the deadlines to spend the money.
Hunter Biden was indicted on nine tax charges in California on Thursday as a special counsel investigation into the business dealings of the president’s son intensifies against the backdrop of the looming 2024 election.